Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi (born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and general who is the current President of Yemen (since 2012) and formerly the Vice President (1994–2012).

His leadership has been contested since the Yemeni Civil War began in March 2015 by the Houthi-led Revolutionary Committee of Yemen and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Biography
Mansour Hadi was born in 1945 a town of the Abyan province of south Yemen. He joined the military studied in the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and Egypt. Hadi served in the army of South Yemen before fleeing to North Yemen in the aftermath of the 1986 civil war, and eventually reached the rank of Major General. During the 1994 civil war in Yemen, he sided with the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh and was appointed its minister of defense. After the war Hadi was made the Vice President.